By Bob Jannarone

A defining moment of my life came while I was a Company Commander at Ft. Benning, GA, in 1972. After about four months in command, I looked around one day and decided that my troops knew me and I knew them, and there was no one who would go AWOL (absent without leave).
I was right. My company …

When I was the Company Commander of an Engineer Company at Fort Benning, Georgia from January 1972 to March 1973, I had several drug pushers and other malcontents. Once I was able to get rid of the drug pushers through administrative actions, everything fell into place. The rest of the troops were …

Pay Day - 1972
One day when I was a Company Commander at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1972, I was assigned to be the Post Duty Officer.
That meant that I had to stay up all night and then report to the Assistant Commandant of the Infantry School in the morning, a one star general, at his …